Mine location quality rule of thumb?

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GHerr
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Mine location quality rule of thumb?

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Subject above doesn't feel worded very well but basically I use to not send a construction ship to build a mining station on a resource unless the total of all the resource percentages added up to 120ish. Not sure if that was a very good rule of thumb before but I'm looking for something the guide me in this version
PalapaJoe
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Re: Mine location quality rule of thumb?

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For my first mines I'm going by the rule of thumb of at least one source of each important mineral of at least 60% or greater.

After that I haven't figured out yet.
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Mightymaster
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Re: Mine location quality rule of thumb?

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I think it also strongly depends on the ressource. I found some luxury ressource which has a lot of bonuses and the amount was 40 %. Build a minig station :)
zgrssd
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I go for any shortage resources regardless of abundance - especially caslon.

Otherwise I greenlight basically everything the Assistant ask me to build.
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deMangler
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Re: Mine location quality rule of thumb?

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Early game it depends what I need, also it is easy and fun to micromanage and optimise it.
I definitly get looser with it as time passes. The advisers do seem to often recommend leeching the tiniest amounts from some useless rock though.
I think in DWU my lowest was a combined 75% in general
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BTAxis
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Re: Mine location quality rule of thumb?

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I just put mining stations wherever the list suggests them. I'm not too concerned with abundance.
baldamundo
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Re: Mine location quality rule of thumb?

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Honestly just build them everywhere and I seem to do fine. Ignore low yield asteroids early game, but otherwise it's not felt like you're very limited in construction capacity
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